Machineflesh 3D Challenge Entry: Dave Anders

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Did some brain storming last night and I decided that my entry is going to be a post nuclear apocolypse version of Pinocchio. Basically the whole world was destroyed by man, and now the only things left to continue living on the planet are the machines left over and a small population of humans. The character Im doing is a left over butler/child droid, that stumbles across the story of Pinocchio and decides he too wishes to be a real boy, but the only means he can concieve of doing so is to take/harvest the organs and body parts of humans, in a way mix matching the limited pieces he can find, and integrating them into his own hardware and circuts to keep them alive. I plan to have him talking to jimminy, a small cricket robot and have the two of them looking at a tattered and beaten copy of a book of the disney version pinocchio. One twist id like to add, is a large clunky arm/mast like a crane growing out of is back with a human hand grafted to the top with a puppet tree/maniquet held there, and then tendons and wire descending to the puppet, so he his own master and prision. Drew some quick sketches, but i hate working from 2d, id rather jump straight to 3d, but for the purpose of the contest ill post them.
hope you like the concept and keep checking back for updates
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[caldred21]

Awesome idea...can't wait to see.

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heres a quick sketch of the character, as i said i kinda am using this as a loose ref for what hes going to look like, mainly brainstorming ideas.
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http://members.tripod.com/~sketchywings/pinoke.jpg

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heres a wireframe and some screen grabs of what i got so far, hope you like it, lemme know what you think, ill try to get a clean render on here soon.
thanks
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http://members.tripod.com/~sketchywings/comp.jpg

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1080071416_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1080071416_large.jpg)

quick sketch, really just a brain storm.

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1080693009_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1080693009_large.jpg)

update:heres a look at how hes coming, just basically hashing out the broad parts of the model, will go back in later to add details. Hope you dig it.
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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1080693126_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1080693126_large.jpg)

another render of the model

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1080693248_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1080693248_large.jpg)

and one last shot for this update, detail points, heart with a watch nailed into it, staples holding ear tissue to skull.

[Cygnus-X]

Outstanding model :buttrock: Nice style !! Keep it up in this way that's looking good :thumbsup:

[mosconariz]

Nice, nice! :applause:

[Ravendsg]

Very COOL!! I Like it :buttrock:

[Versiden]

very awesome man. Really like the detail, coming along nicely. Can't wait to see it textured.

[dreadling]

:thumbsup:

Thanks everybody!
Glad you like how its going, got some more work in tonight, Ill throw some renders up once theres a fairly large visual change.
thanks again

[cartoonimator]

EXCELLENT!

Everything looks great! I love the style, and this very original concept make a good team.

What modeling process are you using (SubDiv, Spline, Nurbs) and what program is that? Looks like Maya maybe?

[Serial]

yeah, looks awesome. somehow that model and yellowish lighting fits together great.

[dreadling]

thanks again for the kind words,
this is being done in maya 4.5, and im just using good old fashion box modeling techniques on this one. Ha ha ha, yeah i dig how the renders came out to, kinda has a teracota clay look to it.

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1080868487_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1080868487_large.jpg)

added hat and bow tie, new foot with no boot, some work to body detail, etc

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1080868542_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1080868542_large.jpg)

close up shot

[ParadiseFlyBird]

yeah dreadling... i really like you style.... and sweet character concept...one thing though i see you have alot of soft edges=subd level... you should go i and add a second group of edges to the edge loops you already have this way you will get hard edges ... if you would like me to explain this i little better PM me.... keep up the good work.. cheers

[EmpY]

Great style!!
Are you planing to use some
wood materials?
Model looks pretty alive.

:thumbsup:

[gizmoroo]

COOL

Very cool style and the modelling is awesome... Keep up the excellent work...

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1081294242_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1081294242_large.jpg)

added a few more touches, hands are finished(rough style, will go back and smooth out later), worked on barbed wire for puppet strings, started on robotic cricket/roach jimany

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1081294299_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1081294299_large.jpg)

back

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1081294378_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1081294378_large.jpg)

cricket/roach sidekick, will be in puppets hand

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1081294771_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1081294771_large.jpg)

one more

[VOO]

Some really nice Modeling there.

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1084923779_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1084923779_large.jpg)

Sorry its taken me so dang long to update the work pic, I have been crackin away, just so busy I havent had a chance to post. Got alot of work done on the body and features, want to flesh out the hands up top, and add "live wires" running from torso to body parts. This was pretty much a test to see what the character looked like in renders, the final will be seated.
Enjoy
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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1084923912_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1084923912_large.jpg)

another

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1084924013_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1084924013_large.jpg)

and again

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1084924129_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1084924129_large.jpg)

one more from the back

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1087583970_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1087583970_large.jpg)

lighting trials

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1087584144_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1087584144_large.jpg)

render trial

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1087595048_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1087595048_large.jpg)

this is about it, but at a lower rez

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http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1087596929_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/5/2284/2284_1087596929_large.jpg)

Complete!

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